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Old Video from South Africa Viral as ‘Monkeys in Indian Hospital’

The video was falsely shared by Pakistani reporter Murtaza Ali Shah as belonging to India.

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A video showing monkeys playing around inside a hospital ward has gone viral on social media with the claim that the video is from India. But the video is of 2019 and from South Africa.

CLAIM

The viral video showing monkeys taking over a hospital was shared by Murtaza Ali Shah (@MurtazaViews), a UK-based Pakistani reporter for GEO News and The News International, stating that is from "somewhere in India."

The video was falsely shared by Pakistani reporter Murtaza Ali Shah as belonging to India.
An archived version of the tweet can be found here
(Source: Twitter/Screenshot)

It was also shared by several other twitter users, fearing it to be from COVID-19 wards.

The video was falsely shared by Pakistani reporter Murtaza Ali Shah as belonging to India.
An archived version of the tweet can be found here
(Source: Twitter/Screenshot)
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WHAT WE FOUND OUT

The video is actually from South Africa and not of COVID wards since it is from 2019.

A search keywords, “monkey” and “hospital” led us to several Twitter users from South Africa, who shared the video in April 2019.

The video was falsely shared by Pakistani reporter Murtaza Ali Shah as belonging to India.
An archived version of the tweet can be found here.
(Source: Twitter/Screenshot)
The video was falsely shared by Pakistani reporter Murtaza Ali Shah as belonging to India.
An archived version of the tweet can be found here
(Source: Twitter/Screenshot)

A reverse image search with a screenshot from the video also led us to British newspaper Daily Mail's article from March 2019, titled, ‘Monkeys terrorise South African hospital for three months as they run riot through wards and kitchens to steal food while patients cower under their blankets.’

The article states that the monkeys entered the RK Khan Hospital in Durban, South Africa and took away the patients' food. It also had screenshots from the same video.

The video was falsely shared by Pakistani reporter Murtaza Ali Shah as belonging to India.
A screenshot of Daily Mail's article.
(Source: Daily Mail)
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The facts were corroborated by a South Africa-based news-broadcaster eNCA's report on 8 February, 2019. Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, South Africa's Health Minister had launched an inquiry into the incident and demanded immediate solutions.

The video was falsely shared by Pakistani reporter Murtaza Ali Shah as belonging to India.

The viral video shared by Shah has been falsely attributed to India and clearly shows an incident from Durban, South Africa.

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